Evaluation workstream

• Author: Fabien Roques - Helene Laroche
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Com bined ret rosp ectiv e ev aluat ion and prosp ecti ve im pact asse ssmen t su ppor t st udy on Emission

Trad ing Syst em ( ETS) Stat e Aid Guidelin es

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2. Evaluat ion w orkst ream

I n t his sect ion, we p resen t t he r esul ts o f t he ev alua tion wo rkst rea m t hat cov ers the ex-

post ev aluation of the EC policy on the indirect cost com pensat ion as per t he 2 012

Guidelines during Phas e I II . W e fi rst pr esent th e sco pe o f w ork for t his a ctiv it y an d t hen

th e main conclusions fr om each m em o. The m emos prepared for this w or kstream are

foun d as separ ate Annex es t o t his repor t.

2.1 Sco pe of w ork

The ini tial scop e of w or k for t h e evalu at ion wor kstream was t o provide in formation

ena blin g t he Comm issio n t o u pdat e Se ctio n 3 .5 “Su ppor t f or indi rect CO2 costs” and the

lit eratu re review in clu ded in Section 3.4 “Free allocat ion and carbon leak age” of t he

evaluat ion r epo rt “ Evalu ati on o f t he EU ETS Di rect iv e” pub lish ed i n No vem ber 2 015 7 and

com mission ed b y t he EC in t he cont ext of the revision of t he ETS Dir ectiv e. Th e aim of

th is w ork w as to help the EC in the evaluat ion of the 2012 Guidelines during Phase I II.

Aft er the initial m eeti ng, th e EC sen t u s on the 1st of Apr il 2019 t he st ru ctur e of th e ne w

evaluat ion report and asked the Consor t iu m to provide inform at ion, data, and a

lit erat ure r eview enabli ng t he u pdat e of Sect ions 4 an d 5 of th is new report :

 Sect ion 4 aims at pr oviding a tr ansparent accoun t of what has been done

du ring th e ev aluat ion pro cess of the p olicy im plem ent ed i n Phase I II. This

par t of the r eport also describes the sour ces used f or th e evalu at ion and

th e limit ations enco unt ered dur ing t he analy sis.

 Sect ion 5 aims at answ er in g the evaluation quest ions. Th e object iv es of

Sect ion 5 ar e to ident ify pot ential fact or s that led to th e im plem ent at ion

or ot herw ise of the indirect cost compensation m echanism by som e

Mem ber Stat es. The rep ort also aims at assessing t he int ervent ion during

Phase I I I with a sp ecific focus on the ev aluation cr it er ia: eff ect iveness,

eff iciency, relevance, coher ence and EU add ed v alue.

We not e t ha t t he Cons ort ium w as n ot ask ed to cond uct t he eval uat ion of th e i nt erv ent ion

as th is is don e by th e EC team .

In order to sup port the EC in the ev aluat ion work of t he Guidelines, we have prepar ed

th ree mem os t hat pr ovid e in put s for Sect ions 4 an d 5 of th e ev aluat ion wor k ( lit erat ure

re view , dat a, and inf orm at ion fr om Mem ber St ates and pu bli c con sult at ion res pond ent s)

as follows:

 Mem o on the l iter atu re r eview of carb on leak age;

 Mem o on Member St at es implementation or other w ise of compen sation

schemes; an d

 Mem o on pub lic consultation responses w ith a focu s on t he evaluat ion;

cri teria set out in Sect ion 4 of t he evaluat ion repor t.

We present in the foll owin g sect ions o ur w ork for each memo.

7 Umwe ltbu ndesam t f or t he EC (Nov ember 2 015), Evaluati on of th e EU ETS Direct ive,

available h er e :

ht tps: / / ec.europa.eu/clima/ sites/ clim a/files/ ets/ r ev ision/ docs/ r ev iew_ of _eu_et s_en.pf